{"id":11867,"date":"2019-06-13T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T01:16:15","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-why-are-the-western-middle-classes-so-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-why-are-the-western-middle-classes-so-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Why are the Western middle classes so angry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump\u2019s election and the \u201cyellow vests\u201d protests in France? What drives the growing estrangement of southern and eastern Europe from the European Union establishment? What fuels the anti-EU themes of recent European elections and the stunning recent Australian re-election of conservatives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put simply, the middle classes are revolting against Western managerial elites. The latter group includes professional politicians, entrenched bureaucrats, condescending academics, corporate phonies and propagandistic journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the popular gripes against them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, illegal immigration and open borders have led to chaos. Lax immigration policies have taxed social services and fueled multicultural identity politics, often to the benefit of boutique leftist political agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, globalization enriched the cosmopolitan elites who found worldwide markets for their various services. New global markets and commerce meant Western nations outsourced, offshored and ignored their own industries and manufacturing (or anything dependent on muscular labor that could be replaced by cheaper workers abroad).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/ap_news\/victor-davis-hanson-why-are-the-western-middle-classes-so\/article_9e797c01-3f11-54e8-aa82-a5f2931bb7c1.html\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily What is going on with the unending Brexit drama, the aftershocks of Donald Trump\u2019s election and the \u201cyellow vests\u201d protests in France? What drives the growing estrangement of southern and eastern Europe from the European Union establishment? What fuels the anti-EU themes of recent European elections and the stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9536,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge\/","url_meta":{"origin":11867,"position":0},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge","author":"Megan Ring","date":"October 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On Grand Strategy, Immigration, And The 2016 Presidential Election by Victor Davis Hanson via Uncommon Knowledge \u00a0Recorded on September 22, 2016 Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses Russia, China, and the danger of American withdrawal from the world stage. 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